Pikes Peak Music Teachers Association General Meeting and Program Presentation

Sara McDaniel – “Why Memorize?”

Sara McDaniel is known throughout the western region as a performer, teacher, clinician and adjudicator.

Much of her work has been done through MTNA affiliates. Her performance specialty is chamber music.

She collaborates regularly with musicians throughout Colorado Springs and faculty of Colorado colleges. She has been a soloist with the Chamber Orchestra of the Springs and the Pikes Peak Philharmonic. She has given pedagogy workshops and master classes throughout Colorado and many other states.

Teaching comprises a major part of her career, both in an independent studio and on the faculty at Pike’s Peak Community College and the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. In 2001, she was Colorado’s first nominee for the Music Teachers’ National Association’s Teacher of the Year.